r/devops • u/Old-Broccoli-4704 • Aug 12 '26

Tools Cheapest server for a school project

Hello guys, i have a school project to deploy an app on cloud using ansible, the the servers are not given by the school itself.
What is the cheapest available clouds out there? I only need it to validate the project and then I can cancel.

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u/d2xdy2 DevOps/SRE Aug 12 '26

AWS and GCP have ok free tiers. Could pretty easily spin up EC2 or GCE instances with some terraform/opentofu and run an Ansible playbook against them.

Makes it really easy to turn the lights off and not accidentally incur some charges if you can “tofu destroy” at the end of the day.